University of Leeds. Museum of the History of Education

The Leeds University Museum of the History of Education was established in the 1950s by William Edward Tate, the museum’s first curator, in the University of Leeds Education Department. The museum closed in c. 2000 and the collection subsequently became part of the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine which was established in the School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science in 2007.

The museum collection contained textbooks and exercise books from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, eighteenth and nineteenth century samplers and children’s drawings as well as teaching apparatus and equipment including science teaching apparatus, educational advertisements and administrative documents, and some training material of students training to become domestic science teachers. The collection also contained archival material such as material concerning education in the West Riding of Yorkshire and histories of individual schools.